Nipponotrophon elegantissimus

Nipponotrophon elegantissimus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]

Nipponotrophon elegantissimus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:
Muricoidea
Family:
Muricidae
Subfamily:
Trophoninae
Genus:
Nipponotrophon
Species:
N. elegantissimus
Binomial name
Nipponotrophon elegantissimus
(Shikama, 1971)
Synonyms[1]
  • Nipponotrophon elongatus (C.-H. Hu & X.-F. Lee, 1991)
  • Trophon elongatus Hu & Lee, 1991
  • Trophonopsis (Austrotrophon) elegantissima Shikama, 1971

Description

References
  1. Nipponotrophon elegantissimus (Shikama, 1971). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 April 2010.
  • Hu C.H. [Chung Hung] & Lee X.F. [Xiu Fen]. (1991). Fossil molluscs from the Pliocene marls of Mt Maan, Henchun Peninsula]. Fauna of Taiwan mollusk fossils, 1(2): 67-174. National Museum of Natural Science, Taichung


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